Improved skate



UNITED STATES PATENT' OFFICE.

SELAH H. CLARK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVED SKATE.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,096, dated September 26, 1865.

To all rwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SELAH H. CLARK, ot' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Skate; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Myimproved skate consists of a blade or runner and certain foot-pieces which can be readily attached to and detached from the said runner, substantially as described hereinafter, so that the skate may be carried in detached pieces in the coat-pocket withoutinconvenience, and readily adj Listed so as to form an available skate when required for use.

In order to enable others to make my invention, I will now proceed to describe the manner of constructing the same.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure lis a side view, partlyin section, of my improved skate; Fig. 2, a transverse section on the line l 2, Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a plan view.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through out the several views.

A represents the blade or runnerofthe skate, to which are secured the two detachable footpieces B and B. Each of the latter consists of a plate a and hub b, connected together by the portions d d, the whole being cast in one piece. The hub b is slotted so as to embrace the runner, a pin, c, passing' through the hub and through an opening in the said runner. This opening is of the peculiar form illustrated in the drawings, and consists ofa vertical portion, h, and horizon tal portion t', communicating with each other, a pin, q, passing through each footpiece, projecting into the vertical portion h of the opening, and bearing against one side of the same, as seen in Fig. 1, and the upper end of the pin terminating in a projection or lip, t,

which n'ts into a recess in the top of the footpiece.

In order to detach the footpiece, all that is necessary is to raise the pin q free from the opening in the runner and then push the footpiece forward until the pin e coincides with the vertical portion h of the opening, when the footpiece can be detached. It can he reattached to the runner in a manner which can be readily understood without explanation, and locked there by the pin q. After the skate has been attached to the foot by suitable straps passing through the openings a' of the foot-pieces B and Bf, the latter cannot become detached, as the sole ofthe boot or shoe rests on the lip t ot' the pin q and prevents the withdrawal ot' the same.

It will be evident without further description that when the several parts are detached from each other the skate can be carried in the coatpocket without inconvenience.

I do not desire to conne niyselt' to the precise construction and arrangement of the pin q, as other locking devices equally eilcient will readily suggest themselves 5 nor do I confine myself to the precise form illustrated of the foot-pieces, as these may be modified in shape without departing from the main features ot' my invention; but

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The within-described skate, composed of the runner A and detachable foot-pieces B and B, the whole being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposeheren setforth In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SELAH H. CLARK. Witnesses:

H. HowsoN, W. J. R. DELANY. 

